Carlo Ventre

Tenor

Carlo Ventre has appeared as a guest by many leading opera companies in the world, including the Hamburg State Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and New National Theatre in Tokyo. Recent engagements have included Don José (Carmen) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the di Verona, Manrico (Il trovatore) at La Scala Milan and Cavaradossi (Tosca) at Leipzig Opera. His most recent role in Frankfurt was Dick Johnson in a new production of La fanciulla del West last season. Roles here in earlier seasons have included Riccardo (Ein Maskenball/Un ballo in maschera), Pinkerton (Madame Butterfly), Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra), Luigi (Il trittico), Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca), San-Lui (L’oracolo) and Roberto (Le Villi). He sang Otello (role debut) here in 2011. Future engagements include Cavaradossi (Tosca) and Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana) in Palermo, Dick Johnson at the Hamburg State Opera and Calaf (Turandot) in Naples.